Those were years of want and misery, strangely blessed by the sort of peace that the dumb and the disabled inspire in us—halfway between pity and revulsion.
This is where tragedies and romances began and ended, as did escapes and returns, betrayals and absences. Life, some said, is a railway station where one almost always enters, or it gets put into, the...
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—
The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval never reaches heaven.
That will be the motto on which we'll build our coexistence: Whatever I say.
Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun
Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.
Si regala qualcosa per il piacere di farlo,non perché qualcuno lo meriti o meno
Setting aside the puppet shows, the only thing that matters is who will be ruling, who will have the keys to the cash register, and how they're going to split up other people's money among themselves....
Sentí que se me encogía la garganta y, a falta de palabras, me mordí la voz.
Senti a sua mão a contornar-me a cabeça,tocando ao de leve no sítio onde eu sofrera a pancada.Vi os seus dedos emergirem impregnados de sangue.Acariciou-me o rosto com eles.A última coisa que vi antes...
Sempre dizia que os seres humanos deixavam a vida passar como se fossem viver para sempre e que isso era a sua perdição.
Se conoce que, en las fases más avanzadas del cretinismo, la falta de ideas se compensa con el exceso de ideologías.
Se bebe para recordar y se escribe para olvidar.
Sai qual è il bello dei cuori infranti? Domandò la bibliotecaria. Scossi la testa. Che possono rompersi davvero soltanto una volta. Il resto sono graffi.
Quiza por eso la adoraba mas, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño
Querido Daniel, cuanto antes usted se de cuenta de esto, mejor: Nada en esta cochina vida vale dos duros si no tienes alguien con quien compartirlo.
Poesía aparte, una religión viene a ser un código moral que se expresa mediante leyendas, mitos o cualquier tipo de artefacto literario a fin de establecer un sistema de creencias, valores y normas co...
Pintar es escribir con luz
Perhaps part of your problem is that you’ve been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you’re trying to learn something,